Peninsula LUG meeting tonight, Thu 2/26/2004

[William R Ward]

NOTE: We have a new IHOP to visit!  There is one in Belmont which has
a big back room we can use, and it even has electricity (just one
outlet, so someone bring a power strip) if you want to plug in your
laptop...

Date:		Thursday, February 26, 2004
Time:		7:00 - 9:00 PM
Location: 	100 Oracle Parkway
		Redwood Shores, CA 94065
		Room 1op104

Agenda:

7:00 - 7:30: 	Nuts & Bolts presentation by Bernard Golden: "Open
		Source: The Next Five Years"
7:30 - 8:30: 	Keynote presentation by Farooq Khan: "Voice Over IP"
8:30 - 9:00: 	Business Meeting
9:00 PM: 	Adjourn to IHOP for social & food time

Nuts & Bolts presentation by Bernard Golden: "Open Source: The Next Five Years"

Bernard Golden, author of Succeeding with Open Source (Addison-Wesley,
Fall 2004) will speak on where open source is today and where it will
go tomorrow. Linux is now accepted as a viable choice for production
environments. What about other open source products? What will it take
for them to be accepted as well?

Bernard will identify the key factors that enabled Linux to be
accepted, discuss their availability for other open source software,
and describe the changes IT organizations must make as they begin to
take on other open source products. Open source is causing a massive
shift of power from vendors to users. Bernard's presentation will
discuss the implications of this shift for both parties.

Keynote presentation by Farooq Khan: "Voice Over IP"

Farooq Khan will tell us all about the latest developments in the
emerging technology of using the Internet to communicate voice.

Business Meeting

We will discuss future directions for the group. Bring your good
ideas!

So we can have an idea of how many people to expect, please email
rsvp at penlug.org if you are planning to attend.

-- 
William R Ward            bill at wards.net          http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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